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Why the iPhone 12 will be the most important Apple product in six years

Apple has long been expected to debut a batch of 5G-enabled iPhones. Now it appears all of the company's new phone releases this year may be able to connect to...

Twitter ‘looking’ at a possible TikTok tie-up

Twitter has approached TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance to express an interest in buying its US operations, according to reports. Video-sharing platform TikTok has been at...

Twitter to label state-controlled news accounts

Twitter says it will no longer “amplify” tweets by state-controlled media organisations, by excluding them from its recommendation systems. The move makes affected accounts less...

Check out manufacturing process of new Uber-like cars by Kantanka [Video]

Kwadwo Safo Junior, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Kantanka Group of Companies, has released videos showing how its new brand of Uber-like...

Twitter says hackers viewed 36 accounts’ private messages

Twitter has revealed that hackers viewed private direct messages (DMs) from 36 of the accounts involved in last week’s hack. It did not disclose who...

Facebook promises cheaper internet in Africa

American social media giant Facebook says its investments in internet connectivity in Africa will see the continent’s economy grow by nearly $60bn (£47bn) by...

Major US Twitter accounts hacked in Bitcoin scam

Billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates are among many prominent US figures targeted by hackers on Twitter in an apparent Bitcoin scam. The...

Google stops storing photos from WhatsApp and Instagram

Google will no longer automatically back up images and videos from social media platforms in its photo app. Previously, the Google Photos app created a...

WhatsApp trick lets you activate ‘Hidden Mode’ so you don’t appear online

With over two billion users around the world, WhatsApp is without a doubt one of the most popular messaging apps. If you use WhatsApp, it’s likely you...

Meet Maya Patterson the lady behind the new Twitter audio feature

Twitter released its much-awaited feature and it has made a lot of buzz around the world, especially Ghana. Some Ghanaians have used the app already...

Twitter introduces voice recordings

Twitter on Wednesday introduces a new feature that will allow users to tweet using their voice. The social media platform said it has started testing...

Instagram ‘will overtake Twitter as a news source’

Photo-sharing app Instagram is set to overtake Twitter as a news source, research suggests. The 2020 Reuters Institute Digital News report found the use of...

Hack shows how to properly clean headphones – and the results are gross

We rarely leave the house without a pair of headphones to keep us entertained anymore. They're used everywhere - to take work calls, listen to...

PlayStation 5: Sony finally reveals design and its exclusive games

Sony teased Thursday which games will be available to play on its upcoming next-gen PlayStation 5 console and finally revealed the device's new design. The...

What does the ‘I’ in iPhone stand for?

The iPhone took the world by storm when it debuted in 2007 and its popularity has shown no signs of slowing down. But, even...

Half of Facebook’s 45,000 employees ‘will be allowed to work from home’ in future

Facebook has joined other social media giants in saying up to half of its 45,000 employees will be allowed to work from home in...

Rwanda is using Robots to attend to coronavirus patients [photos]

Rwanda on Tuesday said the country will put five high-tech robots into use to fight COVID-19 in its treatment centres. “The use of robots in...

How biggest tech giants of the world are working from home

​​How biggest tech giants of the world are working from home COVID-19 has brought the world to a standstill. The global pandemic, better known as...

Ghanaian engineers win ‘Field Ready Ventilator Challenge’

A team of three young engineers from Ghana have won the Field Ready Ventilator Challenge. Students and alumni from Field Ready’s employability programmes in...

RCS Ghana signs contract with Eutelsat for DTH broadcast

Eutelsat Communications, one of the world's leading satellite operators, has secured a multi-year contract with RCS Ghana to provide capacity for the broadcast of...

Covid-19 Fight: mPharma donates remote testing equipment to Noguchi

mPharma, Ghanaian-based pharmaceutical services company, has donated Covid-19 testing equipment or a Molecular workstation to the University of Ghana NOGUCHI Institute for Medical Research....

COVID-19: Video reveals lung damage in coronavirus patient

A video shows the lungs of a man who had been asymptomatic a few days earlier. Now, the patient has Covid-19 and his lungs are...

Coronavirus: OST students create hand-sensitive ‘veronica bucket’

Some students of Obuasi Secondary Technical School’s robotics team, along with their teacher, have manufactured a hand sensitive veronica bucket. The invention is to encourage...

112 to serve as covid-19 helpline as telcos give data-free access to GHS website

Adomonline.com can exclusively confirm that the Communications Ministry will soon announce that the national emergency short code, 112, will be beefed up and used...

WhatsApp security: Is this hidden flaw a new reason to quit?

Consumer-friendly and encrypted, WhatsApp is one of the most popular apps in use today with a whopping 1.5 billion users. But over recent months, an...

NCA, GRA, KelniGVG bust SIM Box fraudsters at Tema

A SIM Box syndicate operating at Community 11 in Tema in the Greater-Accra Region has been busted in a combined operation by officials of...

Computer Scientist who invented Cut, Copy and Paste dies aged 74

Larry Tesler, an icon of early computing, has died at the age of 74. Mr Tesler started working in Silicon Valley in the early 1960s,...

Apple warns coronavirus will hurt iPhone supplies

Apple has warned that disruption in China from the coronavirus will mean revenues falling short of forecasts. The tech giant said production and sales were...

Sony withdraws from MWC 2020 over coronavirus concerns

Sony became the latest exhibitor to withdraw from Mobile World Congress on Monday, following in the footsteps of LG, Ericsson, Amazon and Nvidia. The companies have all pulled out of the...

Self-driving delivery van ditches ‘human controls’

The first self-driving vehicle designed without basic human controls such as steering wheels, pedals or side view mirrors has been granted permission to test...

Apple fined for slowing down old iPhones

Apple has been fined 25 million euros (£21m, $27m) for deliberately slowing down older iPhone models without making it clear to consumers. The fine was...

Ghana signs MoU with Israel to strengthen cybersecurity

The Government through the Ministry of Communications has signed two memoranda of understanding (MoUs) with the Israeli government to strengthen cybersecurity in Ghana. The MoU...

The many meanings of the pinched fingers emoji

Is it a way to show disbelief, a way to ask others to be quiet, or a cute gesture popularised by a K-Pop star? It's...

All you need to know to get your Instagram account verified

Lots of people want their social media handles verified for many reasons but there are certain requirements needed before Instagram can add a verified...

Ghana gets centre to combat terrorism, illegal migration

A new centre, dubbed the National Border Fusion Centre has been inaugurated to assist in sharing critical information amongst Ghana’s security agencies to help...

Meet the Ghanaian who made the internet faster in the U.S

Victor B. Lawrence was born in 1945 in Ghana and a graduate of Achimota College. Lawrence attended the Imperial College of Science and Technology...

Ghana gets ‘Plastic Fund’ for levies mobilisation

Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation (MESTI), Prof. Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, has announced the establishment of a Plastic Fund to support plastic management in...

5 future motoring technologies coming soon

The 2020 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas has once again delivered future tech for the motoring masses. But how much of it will...

WhatsApp to stop running on these phones from Tuesday, December 31

WhatsApp has said that its instant messaging app will stop working on all phones running Microsoft Windows OS from Tuesday, December 31. It should...

Are these Apple’s 2020 iPad pros?

Here's something we didn't expect this early - the first renders of Apple's next two iPad Pros, courtesy of @OnLeaks and iGeekbsBlog. The renders depict the 2020 iPad...